SPUG: VERY weird syntax "error"...

[Jason Lamport]

I was wondering if someone could explain this VERY puzzling behavior. 
Consider these three programs, which *should* be symantically 
identical:

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#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;

my @foo;

print ( $foo[ rand ]
);

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#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;

my @foo;

print (
$foo[ rand ]
);

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#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;

my @foo;

print (
@foo[ rand ]
);

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The first and third do exactly what I would expect (nothing). 
However, the second one dies with:

Global symbol "$foo" requires explicit package name at ./test.pl line 8.
Execution of ./test.pl aborted due to compilation errors.
Exit 255

What the...?!?!?!  The only difference between this program and the 
one above it is the insertion of a single newline, which should have 
no effect whatsoever.

I've tried this with Perl 5.6 on Linux and Perl 5.004 on both Linux 
and MacOS, with identical results.

-jason

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